Philip of Harveng

Philip of Harveng[1] (died 1183) was a twelfth-century Premonstratensian and abbot of Bonne-Espérance Abbey in Hainault (present-day Belgium), and a theological writer.

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Biblical commentary

His Responsio de damnatione Salomonis addressed the puzzling Biblical behaviour of Solomon[2]. He invented novel schemes of history from the Book of Daniel in his Dream of Nebuchadnezzar (De somnio regis Nabuchodonosor) [3], varying the pattern of the four monarchies.

Augustinian theology

His life of Augustine of Hippo was celebrated and influential[4]. Drawing on Possidius, he also makes Augustine presage the regular canons[5]. Associating the phrase docere verbo et exemplo (to teach by word and example) with the clerical life, in his De institutione clericorum, he put an emphasis on preaching[6]. In the same work he argued in favour of social order[7].

Other works

He wrote much hagiography, including a life of St. Foillan[8]. Surviving letters to Philip, Count of Flanders and Henry I, Count of Champagne argue for knightly patronage of learning[9].

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Notes

  1. ^ Philippe Le Harvengt.
  2. ^ heliotropia 2.1 - papio
  3. ^ Giles Constable, The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (1996), p. 164.
  4. ^ Eric Leland Saak, High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform Between Reform and Reformation (2002), p. 179.
  5. ^ Saak, p. 182.
  6. ^ Caroline Walker Bynum, The Spirituality of Regular Canons in the Twelfth Century: A New Approach, Medievalia et Humanistica, New Series Nr. 4, 1973, online.
  7. ^ Giles Constable, Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought (1998), pp. 263-4.
  8. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Foillan
  9. ^ Knights at Court

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